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TIL JFK’s “year-round tan” was caused by Addison’s disease.

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pYZZ8 TIL that only 48 people were rescued out of 212 cruise ship overboard incidents from 2009 to 2019.
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gMkM7 TIL in 1589, William Lee was refused a patent grant for his knitting machine after Elizabeth I feared automation would lead to mass unemployment
9YDgM TIL of Smoky, a Yorkshire terrier who helped save the lives of 250 soldiers in 1944
Z860o TIL that the first recorded use of the term "chips" to describe fried potatoes was in Charles Dicken's classic novel "A Tale of Two Cities"